A thief stole a trombone valued at $400 from a pickup truck at Players Club apartments, 400 Riverbend Parkway, between midnight and 7:40 a.m. Tuesday, Athens-Clarke County police said. The owner told police he thought the truck had been locked, but officers found no evidence of forced entry.

A burglar pried open the back sliding doors of a home on the west side between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 2 a.m. Wednesday and stole a TV, a PlayStation 3 and video games, together valued at $825, Athens-Clarke County police said. The residence had a surveillance camera that recorded video of two men leaving through the front door, one wearing what appeared to be an Army fatigue jacket, police said. When the same home was burglarized in November, the surveillance system captured images of a suspect wearing a similar jacket, according to police.

Not all fat cells perform the same function in the body.
White cells store globs of fat and make bellies jiggle. Brown cells burn fat and keep mice slim.
In between is a type of fat called "beige," which may be a key to battling the bulge.

ATLANTA - Residents of the University of Georgia's largest dorms will have reliably cool rooms with the approval Wednesday of a renovation project.
The University System of Georgia's Board of Regents voted to OK the $2.

An Athens woman was arrested Tuesday night on a felony hindering charge for not allowing deputies into her home to serve an arrest warrant on her husband in connection with an earlier family violence incident.

Fire and rescue personnel in northeast Georgia dealt with a few house fires and lots of broken-pipe issues as the frigid "polar vortex" weather pattern left Georgia in a deep freeze earlier this week.
"Everybody I've talked to said the same thing.

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Inside Llewyn Davis: Just in time for the cold weather comes the Coen Brothers' latest comedic drama, set against the backdrop of the folk scene of Greenwich Village in the early 1960's.

The walking, marching and strutting powerhouse that is the Rebirth Brass Band essentially is just jamming.
The roving syncopation and slinking brass bursts make a band like Rebirth great. Other similar bands are just pretenders to the throne.

Two Internet sites that make money by posting millions of mug shots of people who've been arrested have agreed to stop charging them to take down their photos as part of a settlement in a federal lawsuit.

The Obama administration on Wednesday pressed the nation's schools to abandon what it described as overly zealous discipline policies that send students to court instead of the principal's office. Even before the announcement, school districts around the country have been taking action to adjust the policies that disproportionately affect minority students.

In the three years since she was severely injured in a mass shooting at a political event, Gabrielle Giffords made an impressive recovery, learned to walk again and founded a national political organization. On Wednesday, while others will hold bell-ringing and flag-raising ceremonies, she will mark the anniversary by skydiving.

Backyard rabbit Mr. Bun-Buns has been calling a bathroom home for nearly a week, police K-9s have been relieved of chase duty in deep snow, feral cats got sugar and straw from a lot of good Samaritans and Ormsby, a skinny, toothless, blind and geriatric goat with a tendency to wander has been locked in a barn.

Most of the people who follow the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office on Facebook, or who’ve signed up to receive the office’s online Nixle emergency alerts, probably were at least mildly amused at some of the official communications sent through those social media channels earlier this week as the county, like the rest of the area, was subjected to subfreezing weather.

In the early 1990s, after Soviet communism collapsed, many Western pundits argued that a market economy wouldn't work in Russia because hostility toward wealth was so entrenched most people would rather be poor but equal.

Khaalidah Miller was an infant the last time the Georgia women's basketball opened Southeastern Conference play with two consecutive losses.
Miller, the Lady Bulldogs' only senior, was born Dec. 20, 1992.

When Jefferson competed for its first state duals title in 2002, coach Doug Thurmond had to convince his wrestlers that they could win. "The first one was trying to tell them we can win," Thurmond said.

Billie Jean King believes standing up to discrimination is the best way to combat it, so she had no hesitation joining the U.S. delegation for the Sochi Olympics.
King will help lead the delegation in the opening ceremony Feb.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Von Miller is set to have surgery to repair his torn right ACL in Florida on Thursday.
Miller's rehab is expected to take six to nine months, meaning he could miss the start of the Denver Broncos' training camp next summer.

BRISTOL, Conn. - Police believe former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez was in an SUV when someone inside shot two people to death in Boston in 2012, according to a search warrant filed in Connecticut.

HONOLULU - John Peterson was in the 11th grade and thought no one his age could beat him. That changed when he was at a junior event in Texas, where he heard so much chatter about an eighth-grader from Dallas that he went out to watch him.

ESPN host Dan Le Batard acknowledged Wednesday he gave his baseball Hall of Fame ballot to the website Deadspin because he detests the "hypocrisy" in the voting process.
Le Batard confirmed he let Deadspin readers decide which players he would vote for.

NEW YORK — Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Frank Thomas were elected to baseball's Hall of Fame on Wednesday, while Craig Biggio fell two votes short and tainted stars of the Steroids Era remained a long way from Cooperstown.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is issuing new recommendations on classroom discipline that seek to end the apparent disparities in how students of different races are punished for violating school rules.

WASHINGTON — The original, handwritten manuscript of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the flag that inspired the song's lyrics will be displayed together at the Smithsonian in Washington, the first time the historic pieces are believed to have been shown side by side.

ALEXANDRIA, La.— Louisiana State University of Alexandria needs a chancellor who can help the school boost enrollment and develop its identity in Central Louisiana. That's the view of some involved in the search for a chancellor, as well as some faculty members.

ATLANTA — An arctic blast eased its grip on much of the U.S. on Wednesday, with winds calming and the weather warming slightly a day after temperature records — some more than a century-old — shattered up and down the Eastern Seaboard.

CONYERS, Ga. — Law officers southeast of Atlanta are on the lookout for robbery suspects who are attacking female gas station attendants with tear gas. The suspects also threaten the clerks with a machete.